The art that all arts do approve : manifestations of the dance impulse in high Renaissance culture : studies in honor of Margaret M. McGowan / editor, Richard Ralph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ralph, Richard, Author.

Contributor:

Ralph, Richard (Richard Gale), editor.

Series:

Dance research ; v. 25.2.

Dance research ; Volume 25.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--History.

Dance.

McGowan, Margaret M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pp. [87]-200) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This issue of 'Dance Research' is in honour of Margaret McGowan, the doyenne of British dance historians. The theme is dance as an over-arching and stimulating agent, contributing to cultural and intellectual life during the early modern period in ways that were broader and more profound in their influence than is often recognised.

Contents:

Contents

Editorial Introduction. Margaret M. McGowan: Pioneer of Academic Dance Research

The Barriers: From Combat to Dance (Almost)

‘Rules for Design’: Beauty and Grace in Caroso’s Choreographies

Fragment of the Sovereign as Hermaphrodite: Time, History, and the Exception in Le Ballet de Madame

Dancing Towards Death: Masques and Entertainments in London and Florence as precedents for Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women

Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphos’d (1621)

From Tragicomedy to Epic: The Court Ballets of Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin

Jean II Berain’s Costume Designs for the Ballet Les Plaisirs de la Paix (1715)

Into the Labyrinth: Kenneth MacMillan and his Ballets

The Publications of Margaret M. McGowan

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Winter 2007."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7486-7960-X

0-7486-7112-9

OCLC:

1306540366